American football

Playing high school football has changed the person I am now that I am at the end of my high school journey. From coming in as a quiet lazy freshman, I quickly changed into starting the development as a leader. Being vocal and demonstrating drills was not something I could reminisce on and say that I would of done the first day of summer camp my freshman year. From transferring schools football was my way in. Without the vocal and communication skills I had started to learn, the transition…

the 70s he would start his own private military force along sides Benedict Kazuhira Miller, an ex japanese military he met in Colombia while training guerillas. They name it Militaires sans frontieres. Although mostly composed of South and Central american soldiers, the group would soon receive volunteers from…

up joining the Marine Corps, and returns home on the day of his father’s funeral. After meeting his sister and engaging in some small talk, they end up talking about his room. She says to him, “That’s what Papa call it. ‘Cory’s room’. It got your football in the closet.” (95) This shows that even after all their arguments and clashing ideals, Troy still clung to the memory of his son, showing that he did care about…

Advancements Making Hockey Helmets Safer The game of hockey is a sport mixed with physicality and competitiveness. The main issue that surrounds hockey are head injuries. The number of head injuries in hockey is almost double that of in football. With these numbers, it has drawn many concerns about the game and the regulations for player safety, but many researches have come so far in designing safer hockey helmets to ensure all players are protected and relieve all concerns. The…

The final bell goes off ending the learning and begins the strenuous practice. I enter the locker room ready to war. I put on my armor that consists of padded pants, cleats, should pads and finally my battle scarred helmet ready for a few more. I march out the the field with only my job in mind. As I step on the field I am all seriousness as the battle begins. 'Who wants to play center?' I stand up and confess that I will do it. We line up against other warriors. DOWN, SET, HUT. My story…

(CTE). CTE is a disease that is caused by repetitive brain trauma, especially during contact sports such as football, hockey, boxing, bull riding, water polo, or whatever else you can imagine. Dr. Bennet fought against attempts by the National Football League to squash his investigation on brain damage suffered by pro football players. If you follow sports, especially NFL and NCAA football, as I have for years, we love to see a big hit on the field. But when you start to watch stories of what…

operatives in Vietnam, and John F. Kennedy sent American soldiers to Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson ordered the first real combat by American troops, and Richard Nixon concluded the war. Despite the decades of resolve, billions and billions of dollars, nearly 60,000 American lives The enemy was hard to identify. The war was not fought between conventional army forces. The Viet Cong blended in with the native population and struck by ambush, often at night. Massive American bombing campaigns hit their…

It was October 16, 2012. I was in seventh grade, just a boy to become someone or something. We were loading the bus with our two coaches, Coach Voss and Coach Larh. Coach Voss the offensive coach who liked to make us run, and coach larh, our Defensive coach who taught me everything I known about the defensive side of the ball. This was a big game for me and my fellow teammates this game was going to set the tone for the rest of the season to show that we can be successful. Looking back on these…

There was a study conducted to show that it is impossible for helmets to be concussion proof. This article compared the damages of car crashes to football. According to Mark Wilson, car crashes stop in yards where as players stop in inches. Football players have just a small layer of foam protecting the brain. It has been discussed that a helmet being created to prevent concussions will never be possible. The test was not possible to determine concussions, so they determined the durability of…

Carnegie Mellon University Rugby Football Club (CMURFC, or the “Rugby Club”) was founded in 1990 by a group of twenty students looking to bring the game of Rugby Union to the university. Its operations were discontinued in 1999 due to a lack of membership and re-established, in its current version, in 2004 after an influx of interested players arrived at Carnegie Mellon. In terms of its structure, the club is managed by an Executive Board made up of six officers, all of which are elected in a…